In diving down an internet rabbit hole one afternoon recently, I found myself reading about the link between plant diversity and ecosystem productivity. With my work hat on, I wondered whether the same was true of teams in the workplace; intuitively it does makes sense, so I did a bit more digging.

It’s a commonly held belief that the national gender pay gap is largely driven by gender-based variation in career choices, and that more high profile discrepancies in the world of media and sport are due to institutionally entrenched biases that are soon to be left behind us. However, based on 2,000+ data points from ex-consultants and those in similar professions, the gender pay gap pervades even professional service industries.